"It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated."

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Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

Angelina Grimke

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“My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .”
“How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.”
“The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshellâ€”in the clearness of the instructions they receive.”
“Freedom is based on the anarchâ€™s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. â€œA leap from this bridge will set me free.”
“Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.”
“Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.”
“Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.”
“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share - not be greedy: then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?”

Source : Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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